Method for controlling an automatic rug making machine



H. W. GOTOBED Sept. 26, 1961 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AUTOMATIC RUG MAKING MACHINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Dec. 31, 1956 O D n 000000000 C?! 00 n 0 O ficoooeoopro INVENTOR Harold WfGoiobed Q W ATTORNEY Sept. 26, 1961 H. w. GOTOBED METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AUTOMATIC RUG MAKING MACHINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Dec. 31, 1956 INVENTOR HaroZcZ WGotobed g Q ATTORNEY 3,001,554 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AUTOMATIC RUG MAKING MACHINE Harold W. Gotobed, Main St., Tribes Hill, N.Y.

Filed Dec. 31, 1956, Ser. No. 631,722

1 Claim. (Cl. 139-317) The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for preparing rug designs for use with card punching machines and it consists in the combinations, constructions, arrangements of parts and method herein described and claimed.

Generally there is provided a means and method whereby a designer may compose a portion of a composite design and thereafter mechanically repeat the same throughout a strip equalling in length the width of a completed rug after which the operator of a card punching machine may follow such design and its mechanically repeated portions to punch the necessary cards used in the manufacture of the rug. The present practice calls for the designer or artist filling in marked squares upon ruled paper or the like with indications of different colors until he has formulated a design covering a certain area after which the artist, under'present conditions, must repeat this process copying upon an additional area of ruled paper or the like his original design until he has extended the total number of adjoining papers to a length equalling the width of the rug to be fabricated. The present invention calls for the artist merely formulating a design on one such area and thereafter mechanically reproducing the same upon additional papers. This may be accomplished in several ways but the invention also contemplates a particular novel apparatus embodying a frame into Whihch may be locked a plurality of blocks each having a flat top side'provided with a particular color and a bottom side having type faces each indicating the particular color upon the opposite side thereof. Blocks are also provided for indicating the absence of color or a neutral background color and these are provided upon their opposite sides with support members having relatively small and preferably circular outer faces. The designer may utilize this device in setting up a design after which the blocks are locked within the frame and the type faces supplied with ink as by means of a roller or the like whereupon an impression or impressions may be taken which, when properly assembled, may be followed by the operator of the card punching machine as above set forth to produce the necessary cards for the operation of the rug fabricating machine.

It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide a novel method of producing designs for use with card punching machines.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel device for mechanically reproducing rug designs or the like for use with card punching machines.

Another object of the invention is to provide, in a device of the character set forth, novel blocks forming parts of the invention.

Other and further objects of the invention will become apparent from a reading of the following specification taken in conjunction with the drawings, in which:

FIGURE 1 is a top plan view, partly broken away, of a design reproducing device in accordance with the present invention,

FIGURE 2 is a perspective View showing the upper face of a block forming a part of the invention and illustrating a block whose upper face is of a tan color,

FIGURE 3 is a perspective view of the block shown in FIGURE 2 but showing a support member extending from the lower face thereof, it being understood that in this view the lower face is shown uppermost,

FIGURES 4 and 5 are views similar to FIGURES 2 Hce and 3, respectively, with the exception that the upper face is indicated as being silver in color and the lower face is provided with type adapted to impress the figure 2,

FIGURES 6 and 7 are likewise views similar to FIG- URES 2 and 3, respectively, but showing an upper face which is red in color and a lower face having a type adapted to impress the figure 3,

FIGURE .8 is a bottom plan view of FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 9 is a fragmentary plan view of a rug with schematic showing of certain areas indicating design repeats and punching machine cards, and

FIGURE 10 is an enlarged fragmentary plan view of an indicated portion of FIGURE 9.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, there is shown therein, in FIGURES 1 to 8, inclusive, an open rectangular frame 10 having thumb screws 11 extending through a pair of adjacent sides thereof to bear against clamp members 12 and 13.

There is also shown, by way of example, a series of blocks, 14, 15 and 16 all of which are square when viewed from either above or below.

The blocks are provided with colored upper faces and the block 14 is depicted with its upper face 17 of a tan color, the block 15 with its upper face 18 as having a silver color while the block 16 is shown with its upper face 19 having ared color.

The underside 20 of the block 14 is provided with a centrally located projection 21. The lower face 22 of the block 15 is provided with a type face 23 adapted to impress the figure 2 and the block 16 has afiixed to its lower face 24 a type face 25 representing the figure 3.

Referring now to FIGURE 9, at 26 there is shown a representation of a portion of a rug.

Under the practice heretofore followed, the designer or artist would first formulate his design by coloring in certain squares, as indicated at 28 in FIGURE 10, upon ruled paper, a portion of which is indicated at 29. His finished design is indicated in the rectangular portion shown at 27 in FIGURE 9. Thereupon, under the old practice, it was necessary for the artist or designer to repeat the design of the rectangle 27 again and again on successive portions, as indicated at 30 and 31 until he had completed such repeating design across the entire width of the rug.

The present invention consists simply in mechanically reproducing the original design which would cover, for example, the dotted line portion 27 and assembling such reproductions in end-to-end relationship across an area equal to the width of the rug 26. This may be accomplished by photographic methods, by blueprinting or by an apparatus such as is disclosed in FIGURES 1 to 8, inclusive. In making the original design, prior to reproducing the same, the artist may mark the various squares with code numbers 27a to indicate various colors, instead of actually coloring the same as shown at 28. When the repeating design has been assembled to such length equalling the Width of the rug 26, punch card operators then take cards indicated in full lines at 32 to 39, inclusive and punch the same in accordance with the code numbers indicating the colors or background color corresponding to the colors or background color of the design covered thereby, it being apparent that the card 32, for example, would be punched in accordance a portion of the original design. appearing on the rectangle 27 while the card 33 would be punched to correspond with portions of the areas 27 and 30. Thus it will be seen that the present method provides a means for giving data to the punch card operator in a minimum of time.

In the apparatus shown in FIGURES 1 to 8, inclusive, it will be apparent that the designer or artist may assemble within the frame 10 the various blocks 17, 18, 19 and the like to produce any design whatever, after which the screws 11 are manipulated to force the clamps 12 and 13 to hold blocks in the frame 10. Thereafter the bottom faces of the various blocks'are inked as by an ink roller whereupon an impression of theunderside may be imprinted upon a paper which would correspond in area to that shown in dotted lines 27 although it should be understo-odthat the original design of the artist may be of any width. Additional impressions are then imprinted upon additional papers and the same assembled to a length equalling the width of the rug 26 whereupon the operator may then punch the cards 32 to 39, inclusive, corresponding to the various numbers imprinted by the type faces 23:,v 25 and the like, it being understood that the projections'2l'will merely print dots which will indicate to the operator either a particularv color or a background color. It will be apparent that. the operator will not be compelled tofremember the code numbers of the various colors but willmerely have to punch the cards 32, etc. in accordance with the numbers made by the printed impression of the type faces 23, 25 and the dots 21.

While but one form of the invention has been shown and described herein, it will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that many minor modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claim.

What is claimed is: v

' In. a method for controlling an automatic rug making machine to incorporate a linearly repeated design into the rug being fabricated, said method comprising the steps of, first, producing a primarydesign on a surface laid out in squares and repeating said design in end-to-end arrangement a sufficient number of times to correspond to the length of the width of the design portion of the completed Tug, second, transposing the data of said end-toend repeated design arrangement to a series of punch cards, and third, feeding said series of punch cards to said machine to control the operation thereof for producing said repeated design across said rug, the improvement in said first step comprising: the sub-steps of producing the primary design manually, then reproducing a plurality of duplicates of said design from the manually produced design, and finally assembling the reproductions in end-to-end relationship Withsaid primary design for use in said second step.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Murphy Feb. 10, 1953 

